Karin Molander, MD, FACEP

Emergency Medicine Physician, Mills Peninsula Emergency Medicine Associates/Board Chair, Sepsis Alliance

Karin Molander, MD, FACEP, is an emergency medicine physician who provides frontline care to patients in the community setting, analyzes quality of care and is passionate about patient education. She received her medical degree from Rush Medical College in 1996 and completed her emergency medicine residency at Stanford University in 1999. Molander became involved with sepsis at Mills Peninsula Medical Center in 2007 while training intensivists in central line placement to prepare them for early goal-directed therapy (an initial Surviving Sepsis Campaign piece). 

She joined the MPMC Sepsis Committee in 2009, became chair in 2011 and participated in the LEAN process to develop a sepsis initiative for Sutter Area Hospitals. She helped develop electronic health record order sets, screening tools and standard work for managing septic shock and the severe sepsis patient within the Sutter rapid process improvement workshop team. This team also created identification and treatment protocols that work throughout the Sutter System. Molander currently serves as chair of the Sepsis Alliance Board of Directors.